How to use grimace in a sentence

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• He grimaced in an orkish manner.From the entry orkish
• He grimaced after another lash across his back and settled deeper into the post.2024, Percival Everett, James, Picador (2025), page 95. From the entry punisher
• She grimaced a bit before writhing around seductively on the table.2012, Gail Starbright, Slave Girl for Rent, page 43. From the entry electrosex
• The job was done before Silver could unwrinkle the grimace on his face.2000, Gary Soto, Nickel and Dime, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, Part 2, p. 85. From the entry unwrinkle
• The doll-Doctor-' (the giant grimaced at this, but said nothing.) '-appeared in Endgame.2000 July 26, I. Inayat, “[TTR]: Infinite Eights”, in alt.drwho.creative (Usenet), archived from the original on 04 Jan 2026. From the entry doctrix
• He showed a rather unblinking, lizard-like stare, except when grimacing, or during his rare paroxysms of blepharoclonus.1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings. From the entry blepharoclonus
• Since she saw Hugh, she's given me no peace.” Sheffield's square , good-looking face shaped a grimace.1945, George Marsh, Ask No Quarter, New York, W. Morrow & Company. From the entry crow
• "Sweetie—glad you could make it!" I grimace.2020, Gordon Korman, Notorious, page 93. From the entry skype
• Her face, with its self-deprecating little smiles and giggly grimaces, signals that she is really just another nice and nervous girl.2012, Sally Bedell Smith, Diana in Search of Herself - Portrait of a Troubled Princess. From the entry smiles and giggly
• He smacked his lips a couple of times and grimaced.2011, Barry Simiana, chapter 15, in A Touch of Evil, [Morrisville, N.C.?]: Nitewriter Media, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry cocky
• Frank Connor look the news stoically and, except for a sudden and nearly unnoticed grimace, with no outward show of emotion.2010, Christopher Reich, “chapter 41”, in Rules of Betrayal, page 208. From the entry stoically
• Kara grimaced at the last but waved it away with flick of her Swatch watched wrist saying, “Angie you’re exaggerating.2007, L.M. Favier, A Sackful of Quarters, Xlibris, page 92. From the entry watched
• His face, as near as I could see in the bruises and steady streams of blood, grimaced and laxened.2007, Erika Mailman, Woman of Ill Fame, page 245. From the entry laxen
• 'Bleeding Nora, I asked for Darjeeling not Dunlop,' quipped one of the engineers, grimacing at the enhanced flavour.2005, Jeff Dawson, Dead Reckoning: The Dunedin Star Disaster, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL. From the entry bleeding Nora
• He made a leap for the prickliest portion of the cactus, grimacing in half-expectation of a crotchful of needles.2002, Piers Anthony, Source of Magic, page 17. From the entry crotchful
• King’s adolescent joy in grimaces and groans, the Mad magazine humor, and the staple of “grue” hardly need mentioning.1996, Linda Badley, Writing Horror and the Body…. From the entry grue
• Parameswaran, intent on puffing, raised one eyebrow and grimaced non-committally.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 440. From the entry noncommittally
• If sometimes, in private, he grimaced over “the egg,” his manner to the donors and donoresses was all tactful thanks.1924, The Adelphi, volume 2, number 4, page 295. From the entry donoress
• Had to,” said Pep with a wry grimace.1913, Victor Appleton, “chapter 11”, in The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park. From the entry wry
• Grimace, the Barney of Gen X.2023 June 16, docpepson, “McDonalds Grimace”, in reddit.com. From the entry barney
• At best, words are fumbled but somewhat redeemed with an accepted frustration and shrugs, and at worst, phrases, punctuated with grimaced muddlements, simply fail.2016, Joseph Michael Sepesy, Word Dances III: Celebration. From the entry muddlement
• Now he grimaced, squinted, nodded, pursed his lips, sniffed, huffed and interrupted, becoming, over the night, an agitated man in a box.2016 September 27, James Poniewozik, “How the Split Screen Framed Trump and Clinton”, in The New York Times. From the entry alpha-dog
• When he finally rose, he did not bid good-bye to his breakfast-mates, but merely forced out a smile, which looked like a grimace.2015, Sonia Faruqi, Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey into the Secret World of Farming and the Truth about Our Food, New York…. From the entry breakfast-mate
• One Friday I added a little trimethylamine to the fish, and when my mother smelled this, she grimaced and threw the lot away.2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood. From the entry trimethylamine
• A spasm of violent nausea seized him and he turned up his eyes into his head in a frightening grimace which seemed almost epileptoid.1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 983. From the entry epileptoid
• I asked Giacomo if he ever valeted his car, and he twisted his face into a grimace as he replied, “Rarely, but I have done it.2012 May 30, Jay Weston, “One of the Most Eligible Bachelors in L.A. Has 55 Ferraris.. and Takes Me for a Drive in One!”, in The…. From the entry valet
• He looked like a child’s flatdoll on the smooth green floor, his body too oval from long recumbence, so that his face grimaced out of his sternum.2011, Charlie Jane Anders, The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model. From the entry recumbence
• The mouth with its bright, shiny grimace exposes a stubby row of teeth, from left to right growing stubbier and stubbier, with more and more cavities.1996, Botho Strauß, translated by Roslyn Theobald, Couples, Passerby, page 17. From the entry stubby
• And she grimaces and distorts her features while she thinks and talks, trying perhaps to distract attention from the un-beauty of her face by keeping it in motion.1982, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 44. From the entry unbeauty
• I well remember, in school on a winter's day, looking up and observing some boy or girl, with painful grimaces, surreptitiously caressing a footful of empurpled chilblains.1973, David Morrison, Essays on Fionn MacColla, page 12. From the entry footful
• There was also a close temporal contiguity between "smiling" or other "emotional" grimaces and mouthing and tonguing movements, so that it was often difficult to distinguish between mouthing and smiling.1987, Peter H. Wolff, The Development of Behavioral States and the Expression of Emotions in Early Infancy, page 15. From the entry mouth

Meaning of grimace

1. noun A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
2. noun Affectation, pretence.
3. verb To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

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Questions about grimace in a sentence

How do you use grimace in a sentence?

Grimace is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Her face was twisted in a grimace of disgust.”

What is a short sentence with grimace?

“Grimace, the Barney of Gen X.”

What does grimace mean?

Grimace means a contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.